Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will play their last game before the lay-off which is to be in order during the midyear period. As several of the players must work for the approaching examinations, the game will be more or less impromptu. As many times as the two institutions have met on the gridiron and other fields of battle, they clashed on the ice for the first time last year, when the Bear grudgingly yielded...
...football awarded to him for his services to the Crimson squad six years ago. "You bet, I'm one of the boys," he chuckled as he twirled the charm about on his watch chain, "and I'm proud of it. In 1922, on the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron battle, when the Crimson eleven was on pins and needles in New Haven, I grubbed with them and tried to cheer them up a bit. We had a great show and I promised them every box in the house if they licked the Elis the next day. Whether they remembered...
Western ways prevailed on a San Francisco gridiron as the allstar Eastern team lost loosely to Pacific players in the name of Christmas charity. To be sure, the triumph of Far Western football was slightly alloyed by the potent presence in their line-up of Joel Hunt from the Texas Aggies. Hunt scored a touchdown three minutes after the game began and stopped a punch on the jaw from Weinstock, Western Maryland tackle, just before it ended. Weinstock was ejected from the game. Between these Eastern mishaps the West scored another touchdown and a safety, the East one touchdown. Score...
...differences between the two, which will no longer be forgotten upon a trampled gridiron, are these; men may enter West Point at any age from 17 to 22; at Annapolis, 20 is the maximum entrance age. At West Point a man who has played football at another university may continue to play; at the Navy three years of collegiate football is the limit for any player. Though the Annapolis enrollment is 50% larger than West Point the Army has the advantage, has beaten Annapolis with more than fair frequency in recent years...
Twenty-four Crimson football players and one manager were rewarded with their letters for their activity on the gridiron this season. The insignia were awarded to the following men by vote of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports: Dudley Bell '28, G. K. Brown '29, H. W. Burns '28, S. C. Burns '30, F. A. Clark '29, J. L. Combs. Occ, J. P. Crosby '28, J. G. Douglas '30, A. O. Fordyce '28, A. E. French '29, David Guarnaccia '29, W. R. Harper '30, D. J. Kelley '28, W. W. Lord '28, T. F. Mason '30, John Parkinson...